Our first wedding cake for our friend Katie and her new husband Camron (they were married yesterday). Katie’s colors were fall colors (reds, oranges and yellows) so she decided to go with a chocolate covered fondant cake and the brown fondant looked so great with her colors. This is a 12″, 10″, 8″ and 6″ … Continue reading
And here is another birthday cake for Grant with a monkey on it to go along with his zoo animal party theme! It’s a 6″ square Triple Chocolate Bliss cake (recipe on blog) with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting and then Duff’s Green Buttercream Fondant on top. Courtney sculpted the monkey out of chocolate fondant and he … Continue reading
My friend Tesla’s little boy Grant is turning 1 and she was having a zoo animal themed birthday party for him so I asked her if Courtney and I could make a cake for him and she said yes. We actually ended up making 2 because we wanted to practice making zoo animals so here … Continue reading
Here are the finished cupcakes decorated in the camp’s beach theme. I frosted them with my homemade Vanilla Buttercream Frosting. For the sand, I crushed graham crackers in my food processor and then poured them on a plate and dipped the freshly frosted cupcakes in them, rolling around gently as needed to cover the tops. … Continue reading
And cupcake recipe #3 for the girls from “101 Gourmet Cupcakes in 10 Minutes”. As you can see from the picture, I had some Oreos peeking through my cupcakes so learn from my mistakes and make sure that your batter is smoothed over the cookies so that they don’t poke through. I thought the batter … Continue reading
Cupcake recipe #2 for the girls at camp from “101 Gourmet Cupcakes in 10 Minutes”. These have a pleasant surprise at the bottom, a mini Reeses Peanut Butter Cup, yum! 1 box chocolate cake mix 3 eggs 1 cup milk 1 bag mini chocolate peanut butter cups 1 Mix together cake mix, eggs and milk. … Continue reading
This was a birthday cake for Courtney’s friend Romina who loves Hello Kitty just like Courtney. Courtney saw this cake pan in Michaels and really wanted it so we got it to experiment with and see how fondant works on a cake made in one of these shaped pans and, as it turns out, it … Continue reading
I met Kristy at the Women In Business luncheon where I made the same offer to those ladies that Courtney and I made on Facebook which is that we would love to make a cake for any of them for just the cost of ingredients so that we can keep on practicing. Kristy talked to … Continue reading
This recipe comes from one of my cookbooks called “Death By Chocolate Cookies” by Marcel Desaulniers. The cookies are so named because they can be made and baked quickly. They were pretty quick to make and taste yummy! 2 cups flour 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 pound … Continue reading
This is the last cake we made yesterday for graduation today. It was for our awesome, sweet, funny friend Marlene who loves pandas! The head of the panda is a Devil’s Food cake made in the Pampered Chef batter bowl (recipe on blog under “Barbie Doll Cake”) then covered in vanilla buttercream frosting and finally … Continue reading
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